$Header: /cvsroot/TextQuery/Text-Query-SQL/README,v 1.4 2000/03/21 14:10:48 benj2 Exp $
The Text-Query-SQL home page is http://www.senga.org/Text-Query-SQL/
What is it ?
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Text-Query-SQL is derived from the Text-Query module.
What is Text-Query then ? It is a general purpose query
parser and resolver. It is able to parse the AltaVista 'simple
query' and 'advanced query' syntax. The resulting syntax tree
is then used to build a search query that depends on the
database used.
Text-Query-SQL provides query builders for
SQL databases. Searching 'foo and bar' will retrieve rows containing
the words foo and bar. It does it by generating the appropriate SQL
request.
At present Text-Query-SQL only supports MySQL and Fulcrum's
SearchServer but one could easily add support for any other database
(see DATABASE file), the module was architectured to make this easy.
Where is the documentation ?
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See the following manual pages : Text::Query::BuildSQL(3),
Text::Query::BuildSQLFulcrum(3), Text::Query::BuildSQLMySQL(3),
Text::Query::BuildSQLPg(3), Text::Query::SolveSQL(3)
How to install it ?
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perl -MCPAN -e 'install Bundle::Text::Query::BuildSQL'
And if you want to do it by hand
gtar -zxvf Text-Query-SQL-*.tar.gz
cd Text-Query-SQL-*[0-9]
perl Makefile.PL
make all
make test
If you want to run tests that create a table and exercise search expressions on it
you should try the following:
For MySQL:
DBI_DSN=dbi:mysql:mysql DBI_USER=user DBI_PASS=passpass make TEST_FILES=t/04mysql.t test
For Fulcrum:
FULCRUM_HOME=/opt/fulcrum FULCREATE=/tmp FULSEARCH=/opt/fulcrum/fultext:/tmp \
DBI_DSN=dbi:SearchServer: DBI_USER='' DBI_PASS='' \
make TEST_FILES=t/02fulcrum.t test
For PostgreSQL:
DBI_DSN=dbi:Pg:dbname=test DBI_USER=user DBI_PASS=pass make TEST_FILES=t/06Pg.t test
make install
Where can I download it ?
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The Text-Query-SQL home page is http://www.senga.org/Text-Query-SQL/
Loic Dachary
loic@senga.org
http://www.senga.org/